Coronavirus: Death toll surpasses 90 after two further deaths in West Sussex

Coronavirus deaths in West Sussex hospitals have now surpassed 90 after two more people have died from the disease in the last 24 hours.

The patients were being treated at the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The latest figures from NHS England show that 91 people, diagnosed with COVID-19, have now died at the trust, which runs St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, Worthing Hospital and Southlands Hospital in Shoreham.

Two further deaths have also been reported at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. One other person also died at a hospital run by the East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

It brings the total number of deaths recorded at hospitals across Sussex to 295.

The total number of deaths recorded at each Sussex health trust now stands as follows:

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust: 116

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 91

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust: 73

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust: 15

There were also five further deaths at the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs services in Horsham and Crawley as well as parts of Surrey.

It brings the total there to 223.

National figures

NHS England has confirmed that a further 207 people who tested positive for coronavirus had died as of Thursday, 40 of those in the South East.

It brings the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 24,159.

Patients were aged between 33 and 100 years old.

Six of the 244 patients (aged between 35 and 95 years old) had no known underlying health condition.

Four new cases in West Sussex

Meanwhile, the latest data released by Public Health England has shown that four new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in West Sussex in the last 24 hours.

It brings the total number who have tested positive for the virus in the county to 1,264.

Here are the figures for each local council area in the county:

Mid Sussex: 280

Horsham: 200

Crawley: 197

Worthing: 206

Arun: 151

Chichester: 138

Adur: 92

A total of 233,151 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 across the UK, including 3,446 in the last 24 hours.

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